Is J. D. Vance’s story “an only-in-America tale”?
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
J. D. Vance’s nomination for vice president is being called an “only-in-America tale.” Our national ethos, as expressed in our founding declaration that “all men are created equal,” especially encourages the rise of individuals from obscurity to the highest levels of power. But recent decades have seen our nation transform from one of community values to individual values, and this reflects a deeper issue with how we see our relationship with the Creator and our need for a Savior.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day. It's Wednesday, July the 17th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum. |
| 0:16.2 | Donald Trump's selection of J.D. Vance as his running mate continues to generate headlines this morning |
| 0:22.5 | and for good reason. As David A. Graham writes in the Atlantic, J.D. Vance's rapid rise from |
| 0:28.4 | obscurity to the vice presidential nomination is an only-in-America tale. Consider the facts and judge for |
| 0:35.2 | yourself. James David Vance grew up in a broken home in rural Ohio, surrounded by economic and social decline. |
| 0:42.3 | His parents divorced when he was a toddler. His mother struggled with substance abuse, so he was raised by his grandmother. |
| 0:48.6 | He enlisted in the Marines, served in Iraq, then graduated in two years summa cum laude from Ohio State University, where |
| 0:56.3 | he majored in political science and philosophy. He earned a law degree at Yale, where he served as |
| 1:01.8 | editor of the Yale Law Review. He wrote Hillbilly Elegie, a best-selling memoir of the Traveils of |
| 1:08.2 | of Working Class America. The book was made into a movie directed by Ron Howard. |
| 1:12.8 | He founded a venture capital firm, then was elected to the Senate on his first try. At 39 years of |
| 1:19.0 | age, he has been nominated for Vice President of the United States. Now consider his counterpart. |
| 1:25.4 | Kamala Devi Harris was born in Oakland, California. |
| 1:29.1 | Her mother immigrated from India to attend University of California, Berkeley, |
| 1:33.4 | where she met Harris's Jamaican-born father, Donald. |
| 1:37.0 | Her mother became a cancer researcher, |
| 1:39.0 | while her father became a Stanford University economics professor. |
| 1:42.8 | Her parents divorced when she was seven years old. |
| 1:45.5 | At age 12, she moved with her mother and sister to Montreal, where she attended high school |
| 1:51.0 | and founded a dance troupe. She graduated from Howard University in Washington, D.C., majoring in political |
| 1:57.2 | science and economics, and serving on the debate team. She earned a Juris Doctorate |
| 2:02.3 | in 1989, worked as a deputy district attorney in Alameda, California, and was elected San Francisco |
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